As I listen to the "man who would be king" aka Barack Hussein Obama, I harken back to a time before I was born, a time I wasn't alive to witness first hand, but one I'm very much aware of. A time when one man managed to obtain full control of the government by election of a very small majority of the people and then proceeded to dismantle life as the citizens knew it, just by playing on their fears, their greed and the promise of better things to come. This man took control through malicious lies and coercion, indoctrination of the children and poising the citizens perception of a particular religious group of people.
He was a divider and conqueror hell bent on the destruction of anyone that got in his way. He lied, manipulated and tortured to further his agenda and when it was all said and done, he had committed genocide on 11,000,000 people.
You see, when I was child, teachers were real teachers and not propaganda machines for the federal government hell bent on indoctrinating the pliable mind of a grade school child. No, we actually had the privilege of real teachers teaching real history and not the rewritten, watered down, agenda based propaganda of today. No, it was the real deal.
As a child, I wasn't all that passionate about History in general but what I was passionate about and would set aside my ADD, were the 8mm films about World War 2. Those 8mm films with their grainy and often times impossible visibility took us to points in History we would never have known about if it hadn't been so thoroughly documented. Points in History like a war that devastated most of Europe and almost entirely wiped out a particular religious group of people.
Hitler is the man I refer to and along with his many talents for destruction, he also had a very charismatic way about him. Through the many speeches he gave he managed to draw people in with the fiery rhetoric and the powerful statements leaving them to believe he had their best interests at heart. He managed to turn man against man in his quest for power always looking for the ultimate goal, the creation of the perfect race.
While the masses listened to his empty promises the country became poorer and poorer. Jews were killed in mass and those that were alive were dying daily in prison camps. He lied to the Jews about their future telling them they were being moved to a "safe zone" and would soon be returned to their normal lives when all the chaos and upheaval calmed down. As the citizens suffered in poverty the people that did his dirty work managed to acquire wealth and privilege off the backs of the destruction of the Jews. He never got his hands dirty. He stated that anything done to the Jews had better not lead to his doorstep.
World War 2 was such an incredible time in History and unbeknownst to us, would very much be a part of our future in this country.
